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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

Edsurge

Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

Kent opened her laptop to show the dashboard that tracks her students. She was referring to her husband, Fred, who was a poor student and graduated 206th out of 212 in his high school class. During the interview, Bramante sat beside her laptop, awaiting an upcoming “discussion-based assessment” with one of her students.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. One Laptop Per Child. WTF is Unizin ?!

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